Thursday, January 17, 2013

Idaho Lawmaker Compares Abortion To Prostitution

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/17/1466161/idaho-sex-slavery/

someone should have put an aspirin between their mothers knees.

An Idaho lawmaker on Thursday compared abor
tion to prostitution, arguing that both are “a choice” that women make, and asking members of the Idaho American Civil Liberties to defend prostitution, since they were willing to protect women’s access to abortion services.
Presenting abortion and prostitution as cavaler choices women make and ignoring the real danger of sex slavery, State Rep. Ron Mendive (R) elicited “audible gasps” on Wednesday during a meeting with representatives from the group, which later condemned his comparison:
He was correlating a criminal action with something that is constitutionally protected. Those are two completely separate issues,” [an ACLU representative said after the event. [...]
“It was just a question,” he said. “I do believe it’s a double standard.”
Prostitution is a choice “more so than an abortion would be,” he said.
“Because (in an abortion) there’s two beating hearts. And then there’s one,” Mendive said.
Asked later whether he stood by what he had said, Mendive offered, “Maybe it was a poor illustration.”
still no change in sight, a poor illustration, if you can't make the determination of what you say in public is stupid why should you be trusted to act on decision made on behave of Idaho or his own house.
they do have a habit of putting unqualified people in over their heads or mostly intelligence, Bachmann intelligence, Brownie FEMA, Romney who knows? 
For some women, sex work is in fact a choice, and questions have been raised as to whether the United States should consider honoring that work as legal employment. But that does not mean that all sex work is voluntary, and, in any case, it is no reason to invite a comparison with abortion.
their propensity to judge women and disrespect them makes it easy to condemn need proof read news archives 10,000 BC-2012.